I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
KARL LAGERFELDThe elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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I never fall in love.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.
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Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
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Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
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I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
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